Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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Caruso said:
EskimoArapaho said:
A different sort of 'amazingly cool picture of aircraft':
Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
I've estimated that to be somewhere in the region of 1,000 - 1,500 aircraft.Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
Amazing to think during WWII there were >1000 aircraft on a single raid.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandthethou...
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Mutley said:
Think I read that the current number of RAF aircraft is less than pre ww2 numbers. Can't recall the source, think it was a redtop paper. The reasoning is that warfare has changed, requiring a different Air Force
It's nothing to do with Capability and everything to do with the fact that it is always easier for the Politicos to slash Defence while steadfastly refusing to address the real spending problems.B-17 Cabrio 
One of the aircraft modified as a radio controlled drone. These were loaded with explosive and guided onto a target, but required a human pilot to get them airborne and then bale out once under radio control. The open cockpit mod made it easier to bale out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
One of the aircraft modified as a radio controlled drone. These were loaded with explosive and guided onto a target, but required a human pilot to get them airborne and then bale out once under radio control. The open cockpit mod made it easier to bale out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
Vulcan photo-bomb.
Can't recall it posted, more photos - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144589/We...
Can't recall it posted, more photos - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144589/We...
eccles said:
AlexC1981 said:
Surprised they didn't lose their caps.
Reminds me off my passing out parade at Swiderby. We had a very low level Vulcan do a fly passed.
Ooh! Anglia television's fictional "Scott-Furlong Predator".
It was from a 1960s TV series called 'The Plane Makers' and wasn't an aeroplane at all, but a big plywood filming prop dangling on the end of a crane...
Some might believe that there's more chance of seeing that accepted for service than the FAA's next generation carrier-borne fighter though...
It was from a 1960s TV series called 'The Plane Makers' and wasn't an aeroplane at all, but a big plywood filming prop dangling on the end of a crane...
Some might believe that there's more chance of seeing that accepted for service than the FAA's next generation carrier-borne fighter though...
Aside from the shape of the rear, it is a considerably more convincing design job than the Iranian "stealth" plane. I'm tempted to have a go at making a model Predator though!
ETA: The rear on the original wasn't exactly elegant it seems. After many modifications the FD2 eventually became BAC 221 and now lives at the FAA museum at Yeovilton, just under the wing of it's offspring, Concorde 002. Olimp do a resin 1:72 model, retailing at £40. Maybe a bit much just to have a play around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Delta_2
Interesting to see that it was the first aircraft to exceed 1000 mph in level flight in March 1956. I wonder if the Bloodhound chaps know this, I'm sure they do
ETA: The rear on the original wasn't exactly elegant it seems. After many modifications the FD2 eventually became BAC 221 and now lives at the FAA museum at Yeovilton, just under the wing of it's offspring, Concorde 002. Olimp do a resin 1:72 model, retailing at £40. Maybe a bit much just to have a play around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Delta_2
Interesting to see that it was the first aircraft to exceed 1000 mph in level flight in March 1956. I wonder if the Bloodhound chaps know this, I'm sure they do
Edited by Zad on Thursday 13th August 14:44
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